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"The Five Orange Pips", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1891
there jumped five little dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he still held in his trembling hand, ‘K. K. K.!’ he ...
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One day, when he received a letter with nothing but five orange pips in the envelope and the letters "K. K. K." written on the inside flap, he burned a box of papers and made his will to Joseph, his brother, and John's father.
“The Five Orange Pips” Summary During a particularly bad storm in September 1887, a young man, John Openshaw, comes seeking help from Holmes as there seems to be a curse on his family. A few years earlier, his eccentric uncle who spent most of his life in America before returning to England dies soon after receiving a letter containing five ...
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- THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE. I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.
- A CASE OF IDENTITY. “My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
- THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way
Feb 17, 2024 · Listen to a dramatised version of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Five Orange Pips", one of his rare failures. The case involves a mysterious threat to the Openshaw family in the late 1880s.
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